Since its the holidays.......and we are all rotting at home.......here are some singing tips to keep your mind afresh! :D

1. Warm up your voice before singing. This is essential, because like any muscle in your body, your vocal also need to stretch to avoid injury when you sing. To do so, you can do a lip roll exercise with piano scales or replace the song lyrics with the lip roll. When doing lip trills keep the jaw relaxed and lips closed and try to make a motor boat sound. When doing lip roll try to keep your stomach relaxed and don't push, just let the sound flow out.

2. Correct your posture. Stand tall with one foot slightly in front of the other one, feet shoulder width apart. This allows you to breathe easily and to allow maximum lung capacity to allow better notes and phrases. Stand up straight, shoulders back and down, floating over your torso. Make sure that your chest is high to give room for your lungs to expand and contract. Relax your jaw, relax your face.

3. Pronounce your vowels correctly. Words are truly nothing but a constant succession of vowels with consonants dropped in occasionally to create meaning. So practice all your vowels at every pitch (high, low and in between). Here are some pure vowels to practice with: AH as in "father", EE as in "eat", IH as in "pin", EH as in "pet", OO as in "food", UH as in "under", EU as in "could", OH as in "home". Try singing all of these vowels while maintaining your core sound which is the resonance in the mask of the face.

4. Breathe through your diaphragm. There are teachers that teach you to push your stomach when singing, and this is breathing through your diaphragm. You fill your stomach, not upper chest with air. It makes air last longer, and notes much stronger.

5. When singing the higher notes simply bend your knees to imagine the notes is not high, this way you can hit higher notes.

6. Avoid screaming when you are singing. To do this, raise the soft palate (as in drinking through a straw or yawning) and place the tone in the mask of the face.

7. Emoting isn't about how your face looks , it's about how you feel about the song!

and lastly......

8. Always remember to just be yourself while singing. Remember that even if others don't say so, you will always have a beautiful voice!

Hope this helps! Let's make mr.tham happy for once ya.

with BIG and fuzzy huggies,
kat :D